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Justice for hedgehogs

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work the author argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms, philosophical, cynical, or post-modern, threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics, reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being, and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. The author feels we need a new revolution, and that we must make the world of science safe for value.

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  • "From the book : "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Value is one big thing. The truth about living well and being good and what is wonderful is not only coherent but mutually supporting : what we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest."--Book jacket."
  • "From the book : "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Value is one big thing. The truth about living well and being good and what is wonderful is not only coherent but mutually supporting : what we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest."--Book jacket."
  • "The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work the author argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms, philosophical, cynical, or post-modern, threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics, reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being, and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. The author feels we need a new revolution, and that we must make the world of science safe for value."@en
  • ""Giustizia per i ricci" difende un'antica tesi filosofica: quella dell'unità del valore. Il titolo del libro si riferisce a un verso del poeta greco Archiloco, reso celebre da Isaiah Berlin, secondo cui le volpi sanno molte cose, mentre i ricci ne sanno solo una, ma grande. In questo esaustivo volume Ronald Dworkin sostiene che il valore in tutte le sue forme è appunto una grande cosa: che cosa sia la verità, che senso abbia la vita, che cosa prescriva la morale e che cosa richieda la giustizia sono solo diversi aspetti della stessa più ampia questione. Per argomentarlo sviluppa originali teorie su una varietà di tematiche assai di rado prese in considerazione all'interno di un unico libro: lo scetticismo morale, l'interpretazione della verità, il libero arbitrio, la teoria morale degli antichi, l'avere una vita buona e il vivere bene, la libertà, l'eguaglianza, la democrazia e i diritti, tra le altre cose. Quello che pensiamo riguardo a ciascuno di questi temi deve poter reggere a un'argomentazione che risulti convincente a proposito degli altri, deve giustificarsi attraverso gli altri. La minaccia a tale unità viene principalmente dallo scetticismo, e la difesa da esso consiste nell'interpretazione, ossia in una corretta comprensione dei valori che mostri l'inesistenza di conflitti tra loro. "Giustizia per i ricci" tira le fila dei suoi importanti studi nel campo della filosofia morale e politica."
  • "From the book : "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Value is one big thing. The truth about living well and being good and what is wonderful is not only coherent but mutually supporting : what we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest."--Jacket."@en
  • "El zorro sabe muchas cosas, decían los griegos ; el erizo sabe una, pero grande. En este volumen, Ronald Dworkin sostiene que el valor en todas sus formas es una cosa grande: lo que es la verdad, lo que significa la vida, lo que requiere la moral y lo que exige la justicia son diferentes aspectos de una misma gran cuestión. Para demostrar esto, elabora teorías originales sobre una amplia variedad de problemas filosóficos, muy pocas veces considerados en un mismo libro: la metafísica del valor, el carácter de la verdad, el escepticismo moral, la interpretación literaria, artística e histórica, el libre albedrío, la antigua teoría moral, el ser bueno y vivir bien, la libertad, la igualdad y el derecho, entre muchos otros temas. Lo que pensemos sobre uno de ellos debe estar, llegado el caso, plenamente a la altura de cualquier argumento que consideremos convincente sobre los restantes. El escepticismo en todas sus formas -filosófico, cínico o posmoderno- amenaza esa unidad."@es

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  • "Giustizia per i ricci"@it
  • "Giustizia per i ricci"
  • "Justice for hedgehogs"@it
  • "Justice for hedgehogs"@en
  • "Justice for hedgehogs"
  • "Justice pour les hérissons : la vérité des valeurs"
  • "Gerechtigkeit für Igel"
  • "Justice for Hedgehogs"
  • "Justicia para erizos"@es

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